From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 17 17:59:14 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id F3BAE16A4CF; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:59:13 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:59:13 +0000 From: Kris Kennaway To: Jean Lagarde Message-ID: <20050317175913.GT91771@hub.freebsd.org> References: <4237A3A3.3040704@bigfoot.com> <4238F9A7.5050000@bigfoot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4238F9A7.5050000@bigfoot.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-release fine with 512MB RAM, reboots at times with 1.5GB (but no panic) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:59:14 -0000 On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 07:29:43PM -0800, Jean Lagarde wrote: > Thanks to all who replied. So it seems the consensus is a likely > hardware issue, and I am leaning that way as well now. I will try the > suggestion about disabling ACPI however. > > To address some of the other comments, that exact CPU-mobo-memory > configuration worked fine running Win2000 for many years, so I doubt it > is the problem per se. Doesn't rule out bugs in the ACPI support of your motherboard. Some low-quality motherboards only implement an approximation to the ACPI spec to a level that gets windows to run. Kris